Both in the reminiscences of the old residents and in the official discourse, gundilong was widely described in terms of its impoverishment, sordidness and maleficence.
Who has not paused then to consider the sordidness of human affairs and the vanity of human wishes?
By reflecting so much the sordidness of life, the broadcast is helping to mould public opinion; there is no question about that.
We have been living among ugliness, sordidness, and the effects of industrialism.
Who was it who brought up the subject of the sordidness of money and cash limits?
Everywhere we can see that towns are getting as large as they ought to be if they are not to become places of ugliness and sordidness.
This is the sort of amenity one associates with pictures by artists who are determined to present the sordidness but reality of life in an industrial area.
That can only come about when society recognises the sordidness of its material standards and assesses value not for what is given but what is got.
